Solvay 93

Solvay 93, registration NY3016F, was built at Choisy-le-Roi in 1930 with a 25 hp Deutz engine upgraded later to a 30 hp. The information on this page is taken from Vagus-Vagrant.fr unless otherwise stated.

The SLV 93 was sold in 1964 by Solvay, when Albert STEIMER was transferred to the SLV 100, to the Dombasle vocational school. Where is a section of CAP for bargemen. It takes the motto of "I LEARN". After 1976 it ended its career bought by Les sablières de Richardménil (54) as a barge to carry out the rotations of everything coming between the excavation of Marron and the sand pit of Pierre-la-Treiche until the year 1996 then it was cut up.

Two photos of Solvay 93 from an edition of the book " Long cours sur les rivières et canaux " by Georges Simenon, to illustrate a boat built at the Choisy-le-Roi shipyards in 1930.  The lock has been identified as écluse 76 at St-Jean-de-Losne on the Burgundy canal:

Solvay 93 on the small slipway at Dombasle in the 1960s:

Here she is loaded at about the same time:

Moored with Solvay 81 on the Meuse in 1963:

Here's J'Apprends in October 1972 at the Dombasle lock:

And an article on the training vessel: